Frangan Salmond

Frangan Salmond (12 October 1772-18 June 1815) was a general of Great Britain who served as the colonel of the 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He was killed in the battle.

Biography
Frangan Salmond was born in Perth, Perthshire, in Scotland in 1772. He enlisted in the 42nd Regiment of Foot of the British Army in 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars and served in the Flanders Campaign, where he earned higher rank after fighting in many battles with the French. In 1808 he served under Sir John Moore, a Scotsman like him, in Spain during the Peninsular War. Salmond was made the colonel of the regiment in 1811 after the Battle of Albuera, and he continued to fight alongside the elite Black Watch until the war's end in 1814. He was transferred to the British occupation forces in Paris, led by the Duke of Wellington, along with his regiment.

In 1815, the Black Watch fought in the Battle of Waterloo under the Duke of Wellington, some of the 68,000 British, Dutch, German, and Belgian troops that fought 72,000 French troops under Napoleon I of France. Salmond's regiment repulsed many attacks from the French on the village of Papelotte, but failed to prevent a French takeover of the chateau. Salmond was mortally wounded while leading his regiment to the rescue of the Dutch forces inside the chateau, but his regiment fought on until victory was won.